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True, yet none disagree with the Chazal of isha ksheira osah ratzon baalah. I’m sure you weren’t saying otherwise.

What makes you think I would c”v say otherwise?

Would you like to quote which part of the Torah you are referring to regarding other reflections on marriage?

Well first of all, we discussed the term ezerk’negdo. If a woman would just be the yes man, it would just say ezer, k’negdo means that sometimes she needs to be assertive.

Then there’s the instance where Sara Imeinu told Avrahm Avinu to send away Yishmael and Hashem told Avrohom to listen to Sara. The wife has a binah yesierah an intuition which could at times clash with a husband’s logic.

Rifkah feared her husband Yitchok and therefore sent Yaakov to Yitchok to get the brachos in an underhanded way. I don’t remember where the source is for this but I definitely read it somewhere that that was not the ideal relatonship one should have in a marriage.

Oin ben Peles listened to his wife and was therefore saved. Korach’s wife caused him his destruction because she instigated him to do wrong. The wife has a major influence on the husband and family. We also see that from the posuk (I’m not sure but I think the posuk originates from Mishlei)”shma beni mussor avicha v’al titosh Toras imacha” the mother has a major influence upon the entire family and should therefore it is her duty to impart Torah values.

The bracha sheusani kirtzoinoy is interperted by some meforshim as to mean that since the woman is spiritually complete and therefore is exempt from mitzvos shehasman grama, she needs to give thanks to Hashem for making her according to His Will but men need to thank Hashem for not freeing them from their obligations to serve Hashem with the mitzvos He gave them.

Some meforshim also interpret this bracha to mean that Hashem made women according to His Will and since He is a Giver, women are too. Women are by nature givers (feminism or liberism- whatever you want to call it, turned women into selfish creatures)and therefore have the role of givers in the marriage and family.

These are just some reflections on the women’s role in marriage and motherhood and I’m sure there are many others that I can’t think of off the top of my head. I need to do some research to unearth more instances of husband/wife roles and relationships, but I don’t have time for that now.